Mantis Project

Abstract

The Mantis project is developing a toolkit for building Web-based cataloging systems with arbitrary metadata definitions and interfaces. By requiring that end users have only standard Web browsers, the project is aimed at lowering the barriers to acceptance, distribution, and use of these tools. By emphasizing that metadata can assume many different formats, the project shows that generalized metadata tools can be used for many applications.     

VET

Abstract

Between October 2003 and July 2004, the Statewide Virtual Reference Project (a Washington State Library initiative funded by LSTA) developed the Virtual Evaluation Toolkit, or VET. The purpose of VET was to help libraries improve virtual reference services, with resulting increased awareness, usage, and customer satisfaction. VET includes three levels of evaluation tools with information on their implementation and examples of the use of results, along with a generic final report based on three test site evaluations (an academic, public, and special library). The complete manual is available on the Web in order to provide practical and meaningful tools and recommendations that encourage libraries to use them and also to report on their use.     

Creating a Local Print Repository for State Consortium Online Purchases

A group of eleven public university libraries, comprising the Council of State University Libraries consortium, created an experimental archive to retain one print copy of online journals for use of consortium members. The article addresses the initial concerns, development of the project, methods used, and concerns for the future. The article raises the question of whether libraries need to archive print backups for online materials as well as who should do the archiving and to what extent.     

Freeing Ariel: The Prospero Electronic Document Delivery Project

ABSTRACT

Prospero is an electronic document delivery project initiated by the John A. Prior Health Sciences Library at The Ohio State University resulting in a software program that provides patron access to documents that are transmitted using the Ariel system. Using Prospero, documents no longer have to be manually printed out, packaged, and distributed. Patrons no longer have to come to the library to pick up documents or wait for them to be delivered. Documents can be accessed from wherever patrons have Internet access. This paper provides an overview of the Ariel system, background on the evolution of electronic ILL services, and details the development and features of the Prospero system.     

From California to Michigan: Race,Rationality, and Neoliberal Governmentality

In this essay, we examine recent developments in battles over race- and gender-based affirmative action across a 10-year period from the California Civil Rights Initiative (1996) to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (2006). While affirmative action policies have historically been contested within a paradigm of redistribution, our analysis of the Michigan case suggests a new strategic emphasis on disputing the legitimacy of the state's recognition of social difference. Drawing on the work of critical race and critical rhetoric scholars, as well as social theory on citizenship in the post-soul moment, we argue that a neoliberal understanding of difference and neoliberalism's appropriations of multiculturalism have allowed the anti-affirmative action movement in Michigan to avoid racist appeals completely by invoking the neoliberal myth of free, entrepreneurial individuals against a meddling, inefficient, authoritarian state. Further, we find that these shifts have permitted assaults on the positive consideration of gender—a strategy that was not possible when debates were centered over competing claims of racism. Finally, we argue that these strategic adjustments since California have enabled the anti-affirmative action movement to discursively align itself with contemporary neoliberal assaults on a range of social and cultural rights.     

Central Eurasian Information Resource(CEIR)

Abstract

The Central Eurasian Information Resource(CEIR) is a multi-media database cooperatively developed by the University of Washington, South Seattle Community College, and The Evergreen State College. It is designed to provide web-based access to a range of location-specific statistical, image, and full-text information for the regions of the Russian Federation and other former Soviet republics. Particular emphasis is given to the development of graded curricular materials to assist with the application of the resources in college and high school classrooms.     

Pashkov Dom,Publishing House of the Russian State Library,Seeks Partners and Recommendations for Translation Series

ABSTRACT

Pashkov dom, publishing house of the Russian State Library (formerly the Lenin Library) is seeking partners and recommendations of significant foreign works for its translation series “Biblioteka budushchego: zarubezhnyi opyt” (The Library of the Future: Foreign Experience). Contact information is provided.     

六朝初期孙吴统治区的社会状况

六朝时期是我国历史上的一个重要时期。它对中国历史的发展作出过重要贡献。这种贡献不仅表现在经济方面,更突出地表现在文化方面。而孙吴政权是六朝中首先立国的。本文将着重探讨孙吴政权建立的情况及孙吴统治之下的社会发展概况,包括东吴社会经济发展状况、世家豪强势力的发展状况以及东吴时期的婚姻制度等。     

从CBA2004～2005赛季的比赛分析陕西东盛男篮的现状

对CBA2004-2005赛季陕西东盛男篮和江苏队,广东队,八一队及辽宁队的比赛,运用文献资料法,录像观察法,比较分析法等方法进行对比研究。结果表明,东盛男篮成绩不佳的主要原因是:整体作战的意识差,战术的组织没有创造出更多更合理的投篮机会,拼抢篮板球的意识不强,防守的整体性差。